Israel/Hamas War Superthread

[Dill]

(04-26-2024, 01:21 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Hahaha, you're so pathetically predictable.  I suppose you read through the entire article before posting this, right?  What a sophomoric characterization of the tent observation.  You fancy yourself an intellectual and this is what you vomit up for us?
For you, sure.  You're desperate to link these kids to a noble cause because they're clearly a bunch of uninformed bigots.  
Hmm, I seem to remember the same arguments being made about the violence at BLM protests.
https://www.congress.gov/116/meeting/house/110775/documents/HHRG-116-JU00-20200610-SD019.pdf

It's one thing to be protesting against blatantly racist laws and policies.  Quite another to actively advocate for a terrorist group that routinely engages in gang rape, murder and kidnapping.  A group that is openly, and virulently homophobic and misogynistic.  Honestly, your attempts to link these protests to the civil rights marches is offensive on its face.

Well you'd be right if the protestors were "advocating for Hamas."  But they are not.

They are protesting the mistreatment of Palestinian civilians before and during the war. 
Not hard to get from there to "noble cause," regardless of who buys their tents.

This is easy to discover. E.g., check out the links from Jewish students and faculty I've posted
on the "Columbia" thread. From this it's not clear why THEY, not YOU, are the "uniformed bigots."

But you've not taken the time to discover what they are protesting, or deliberately shied from that, 
to police perspectives and share feelings. The result is one false claim. No factual comparison or fact checking whatsoever.

That Post article was pretty bad, tabloid level, as in superficial and designed less to report than to lead readers
to the "Right" conclusion via association.  Inquiry into protestors motives is settled via association with a known "liberal."
Compare that to the historically informed and thoughtful reflection of Dino's article by Harari or mine by Masha Gessen.

So as usual, the primary difference between us concerns standards, the difference in
willingness to vet sources, to observe/investigate before judging, to argue from evidence
rather than to accuse and substitute emotion for evidence.